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Zimbabwe, Russia standardise professional qualifications
ZIMBABWEANS who study in Russia can now start their careers locally without doing the conversion of degree programmes as the Government strengthens inter-cooperation with Russian universities for mutu...Published: 12 Mar 2024 at 05:12hrs | 375 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean Minister urges patriotism among youth
YOUTH Empowerment, Development and Vocational Training minister, Tinoda Machakaire has urged youths to actively participate in nation building. Machakaire was speaking at the Internation...Published: 07 Mar 2024 at 05:09hrs | 59 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa still isolated after 47 global trips
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has travelled 47 foreign trips since coming to power, in a re-engagement drive that has been bogged down by human rights abuses and failure to implement key political refo...Published: 06 Nov 2022 at 11:50hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
African leaders shun Ukraine's Zelensky
Only four out of 55 leaders reportedly listened to President Zelensky's virtual address to the African UnionJust a handful of African heads of state tuned in to personally listen to Ukrainian ...Published: 26 Jun 2022 at 08:51hrs | 26 | by Staff reporter
Russia optimistic on Zimbabwe investments despite war
RUSSIA is bullish about its investment prospects in Zimbabwe despite the current economic restrictions triggered by the ongoing special military operation in Ukraine by Russia. The Zimbabwe Independen...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 17:58hrs | 24 | by Staff reporter
No celebrity, no matter how influential, can convince an abused person to support his tormentors
I remember a debate we had with a learned friend, on social media a couple of months back, on whether an individual, as self-proclaimed prophet Passion Java, could be considered an influential person....Published: 01 Feb 2022 at 17:29hrs | 15 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
There's more evidence of rampant corruption in Zimbabwe than imagined economic sanctions!
As the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur Alena Douhan winds up her much talked about visit, I wonder what real incontrovertible evidence she has managed to garner, on how exactly the so-called 'e...Published: 25 Oct 2021 at 15:28hrs | 10 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Are Zimbabweans a lost cause irredeemably content with being oppressed?
When I was reading renowned and award-winning journalist Hopewell Chin'ono's latest tweets where he clearly expressed open frustration and even infuriation at most Zimbabweans' apparent docility, subm...Published: 06 Aug 2021 at 07:45hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Red lights flashing over Russian deals
RUSSIA is clearly keen to boost its presence in Africa. "Africa is one of the priorities of Russian foreign policy," declared Russian deputy foreign affairs minister Mikhail Bogdanov in a meeting of t...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 08:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa using people for his own selfish ends
MOST probably ensconced in the comfort of their homes, the violence mongering leaders of the opposition used their proxies to ignite chaos in the heart of Harare. What they did not know is that their ...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 07:31hrs | | by Pupurai Togarepi
Russia rebuilding a bridge to Africa
About 35 leaders of African countries have officially confirmed their participation in the Russia-Africa Summit, Russian Presidential Envoy for the Middle East and Africa and Deputy Foreign Minister, ...Published: 02 Aug 2019 at 09:17hrs | 2218 | by Kester Kenn Klomegah
China to help remove Mnangagwa over Zimbabwe diamonds war with Russia
This article first appeared on Spotlight Zimbabwe. LONDON - President Emmerson Mnangagwa's presidential exit is all but sealed amid reports that China ...Published: 22 Jul 2019 at 09:02hrs | 15251 | by Itai Mushekwe
10 romantic short haircuts for round faces
If you have a round face and you are searching for the best and trendiest short haircuts that will rock the shape of your face, then you are reading the right page. You should understand that not all ...Published: 18 Jun 2019 at 12:38hrs | 4280 | by Staff Writer
Organizing committee prepares for Russia-Africa Summit
On March 19, under the Chairmanship of Yury Ushakov, an Aide to the Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Organizing Committee on Russia-Africa held its first meeting in Moscow. The Organizing Committ...Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 08:05hrs | 469 | by Kester Kenn Klomegah
African athletes shine in 2018 Winter Olympics
In the years leading up to Alberta Canada's 1988 Winter Olympics, a motely group of bobsled enthusiasts trained for the Bobsled Competition. The event, which was immortalized in Walt Disney's "Cool Ru...Published: 21 Feb 2018 at 18:40hrs | 1 | by Agencies
Mugabe's brief success
The little-known Presidential Travel Committee (PTC) includes some of the most creative minds in Zanu PF. Apart from top presidential aides, its members include senior officials from the Reserve Bank ...Published: 23 Oct 2017 at 07:18hrs | | by ZimVigil
MDC chides extravagant Zanu-PF
THE Welshman Ncube-led MDC has reacted angrily to Zanu-PF's recent move to send a 100-member youth delegation for a global youth festival in Russia at a time the economy is "burning".Zanu-PF y...Published: 23 Oct 2017 at 06:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fight over Grace Mugabe's ascendency to Presidium intensifies
Youths from Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF are reportedly divided over plans to amend the party's constitution to accommodate a female vice president.Reports last week indicated that there was a pr...Published: 19 Oct 2017 at 11:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths fight over Grace Mugabe
THE Zanu-PF youth league is reportedly divided over plans to amend the party's constitution to allow for the re-introduction of the women's quota, largely seen as meant to catapult First Lady Grace Mu...Published: 19 Oct 2017 at 07:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabes leave Air Zimbabwe with no working plane
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe flew out to Uruguay, while his Zanu-PF party youths are in Russia, both using Air Zimbabwe's long-haul planes, leaving the national flag carrier with only one aircraft that sou...Published: 18 Oct 2017 at 09:41hrs | 2024 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe, Grace bleed Zimbabwe dry
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe flew out to Uruguay, while his Zanu-PF party youths are in Russia, both using Air Zimbabwe's long-haul planes, leaving the national flag carrier with only one aircraft that sou...Published: 18 Oct 2017 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe scholarship students starving in foreign land
Students sent out of the country on Presidential scholarship have complained that they are starving and efforts to alert the Minister of Scholarship Christopher Mushohwe have yielded nothing.I...Published: 17 Oct 2017 at 18:42hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Grace Mugabe represents Bob in Russia
PRESIDENT Robert and wife Grace were Monday set to leave the country headed for different destinations in another serious drain on an already overburdened fiscus.According to NewZimbabwe.com, ...Published: 17 Oct 2017 at 13:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe leaves for Russia, '1 day before he dies'
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe, battling a vicious succession war and a comatose economy back home, is today expected to leave for a low-key youth summit - World Festival of Youth and Students - in Sochi, Ru...Published: 16 Oct 2017 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man jams 15 sewing needles in his penis
A 35-year-old man in China had to have surgery after jamming 15 sewing needles down the hole in his penis 'for sexual pleasure'.According to ...Published: 27 Jun 2017 at 16:38hrs | 3058 | by Staff Reporter
Dear Bob: Letter to Mugabe, on his birthday
Dear Bob Hi, Sorry for my lack of decorum, how should I know how to address you when I've never been allowed inside the State House?Happy birthday, Sir. Have a nice one. At least you c...Published: 21 Feb 2017 at 13:50hrs | | by Realise Mwase
Let the foolish dream on, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo members,COMRADES, I am made to understand that this fake pastor called Evan Mawarire who has sold his soul for a few pieces of silver is busy mobilising people to ma...Published: 15 Sep 2016 at 11:45hrs | | by CZ
Is Africa rising?
Africa Day, 25 May, has come and gone and we remain with the burdens of being Africans, the burden of the indignities and humiliation of colonialism, the burden of slavery which no other continent suf...Published: 01 Jun 2016 at 16:13hrs | | by MDC President Professor Welshman Ncube
Open letter to Honorable Dexter Nduna
Honorable I will address you with your title, I know you guys like it a lot, to honor yourselves and soundly assume that we also honor you. First and foremost I would like to give you credit in admiss...Published: 15 Feb 2016 at 11:14hrs | | by Baridzi Nkololo wa Tjilumehane Moyo
Futility of Tsvangirai politics, finally America speaks
FOR once, let's give it to them. The MDC-T appears to have mastered the politics of spite. Only the consistency is self-destructively cynical, masochistic even, exposing the lack of brains to formulat...Published: 03 Jul 2015 at 09:13hrs | 4771 | by Joram Nyathi
Putin vowes to punish killers of Kremlin critic
Moscow - Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed to punish the killers of Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov as opposition figures denounced what they called a "political murder" and Western leaders called f...Published: 01 Mar 2015 at 09:16hrs | 2313 | by Staff Reporter
Obama urges Putin to make choice over Ukraine
Warsaw, Poland - President Barack Obama wants his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to take steps to rebuild the trust shattered by Russia's actions in Ukraine.Obama's comment came as he visi...Published: 03 Jun 2014 at 14:13hrs | | by CNN
Is Zimbabwe headed to a new political discourse?
IS our opposition politics hitting a tipping point? Are we headed towards a new political discourse that gives Zimbabwe priority over foreign interests, a political discourse that fosters faith i...Published: 24 May 2014 at 20:29hrs | | by Joram Nyathi
Five reasons Politicians fail at Social media
I'm based in Zimbabwe, the battleground of one of the last few decades' most divisive national elections, and the first one where Social media is arguably playing a big part. Political parties have hi...Published: 27 Mar 2014 at 18:05hrs | | by Sailas Chawira
Vengeance is coming for dirty politicians - T.B. Joshua
On Sunday 9th February 2014, the controversial Nigerian Prophet T.B. Joshua released yet more alarming prophetic messages to Nigeria, Africa and the international community.He declared ven...Published: 09 Feb 2014 at 21:28hrs | | by Ihechukwu Njoku - freelance Nigerian journalist
Greetings from Luke Steyn - Zim's first Winter Olympian ever - Video
Born in Harare, capital of Zimbabwe. Luke Steyn is the country's first athlete to participate in the WInter Olympic Games. Moving to Europe at an early age, Luke started his skiing career in E...Published: 08 Feb 2014 at 10:46hrs | | by Sports reporter
14 people killed in suicide bomb attack in Russia
At least 14 people have been killed in a suicide bombing on a trolleybus in the Russian city of Volgograd, investigators say.The blast comes a day after 17 people died in another suicide attac...Published: 30 Dec 2013 at 04:49hrs | | by BBC
The paradox of the 'white African' - when white is black and white
"I move that the House take note that tomorrow (Thursday) I will move a motion to nationalise and prescribe all Marange diamond fields."...Published: 22 Jul 2012 at 10:44hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Pyeongchang of South Korea wins Olympic bid
Durban - Pyeongchang of South Korea won the right to host the 2018 Winter Olympics on Wednesday, comprehensively winning a vote by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) over rivals Munich of Ger...Published: 07 Jul 2011 at 08:29hrs | 1258 | by Sapa
Review: Splatterhouse
There are a lot of great cult favorite games that were released back in the heyday of the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis, and one that often bordered on culty was the Splatterhouse series. But ...Published: 20 Dec 2010 at 17:27hrs | 1 | by X-Box
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